To be too ashamed to return home and face one's people, especially after a significant failure or defeat.
这次任务失败了，他感到无颜见江东父老，决定暂时离开家乡。
Having failed this mission, he felt too ashamed to face his hometown elders and decided to leave his hometown for a while.
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During the Chu-Han Contention, Xiang Yu led a force of 8,000 young men from Jiangdong to attack the Qin army. They grew stronger with each battle.
However, due to Xiang Yu's arrogance and refusal to listen to his subordinates' advice, he acted on his own will and was eventually trapped by Liu Bang's Han army at Gaixia, near the Wu River, surrounded on all sides by enemy songs (a strategy known as 'Ambush from Ten Sides').
Countless Jiangdong soldiers perished. Feeling too ashamed to face the elders of Jiangdong, Xiang Yu drew his sword and committed suicide.
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